The Study in the Correlation Between the Severity of Post-stroke Fatigue and the Severity of qi Deficiency and Blood Stasis

The Study in the Correlation Between the Severity of Post-stroke Fatigue and the Severity of qi Deficiency and Blood Stasis in Chinese Medicine.

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01669759

Enrollment

Registered

2012-08-21

Start date

2012-07-31

Completion date

2013-06-30

Last updated

2012-08-21

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Conditions

Poststroke Fatigue

Brief summary

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the correlation between the severity of fatigue, and the severity of qi deficiency and blood stasis.

Detailed description

According to the reports of department of Health, stroke has been the top three ranking in leading ten major mortality causes. Although fatigue is a common symptom after stroke, but it is easy to neglect due to fatigue is a non-specific symptom. Based on the literature review, fatigue symptom is not only common on post-stroke patient and it also has highly correlation with mortality, prognosis and efficacy of rehabilitation. In Traditional Chinese Medicine recording, Wang Qing-ren suggests that the main etiology of stroke is results from qi stagnation and blood stasis, thereafter, the study about qi deficiency and blood stasis became to the main stream for stroke until now. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the correlation between the severity of fatigue, and the severity of qi deficiency and blood stasis.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

40 Years to 80 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Gender: men or women 2. Age:40\ 80 years old 3. Stroke history at least 3 months 4. Hemorrhage or ischemic stoke 5. Conscious clear and can communicate 6. Brief Fatigue Inventory-Taiwan form score ≥ 4 7. Sign informed consent

Exclusion criteria

1. Patient with psychotic diagnosis and can't cooperate with researcher 2. Major disease: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart failure, myocardial infarction, chronic renal failure, liver cirrhosis 3. Pregnant women 4. Breastfeeding women

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Frome Fatigue severity level scale to evaluate fatigue severity score.	about 20 minutes	When patient visit first time,we complete all the evaluation scale. Total evaluation time is about 20 minutes. And all data will be analyzed one year later.

Countries

Taiwan

Contacts

Primary ContactYuan-Chen Chiu, Master of Chinese Medicine

jamy_chiu@hotmail.com886-4-22053366

Outcome results